Best Sequestering Poems
There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say and hear.
Filled with righteous indignation
And a blind sanctification to their cause.
They pervert both judge and jury...
Twisting truth with sainted claws.
Under a veil of woeful ignorance...
They molest and kink impeccant minds.
When pressed to divulge their scribblings...
They graciously decline.
'You've not the right!' They blindly scream.
'Your fear and doubt is blatantly absurd.
We are gentle shepherds of our flock...
But you'll just have to take our word.'
For far too long we've abdicated our
Responsibility to these purveyors of disruption.
As they've repackaged long failed ideologies...
Fattening our children for destruction.
Nothing good comes from darkness
Except mushrooms and a willingness to deceive.
And proselytizing children like some fungi...
Seems unnecessarily naive.
These predators, race-baiters and gangsters
Are akin to an unruly cockroach in the night.
They happily go about their sordid business
Till someone dares to shine a light.
If you refuse to rise and shine that light...
Then we be back where this began.
But there are still foxes in the chicken-coop...
There be wolves among the lambs.
The End
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*Pedagogy: -the principles and methods of instruction.
-the activities of teaching.
Categories:
sequestering, anger, child abuse, education,
Form:
Rhyme
Lost in a labyrinth of
Glistening sights
Infinitely out of reach,
Trembling amidst sweeping mistrals,
Fabricating a life of nostalgic allusions,
Caught in lapsed reveries, of
Restless arias and faint rustlings
Sequestering my rampant aura,
Bleeding in russet naivety,
Evaporating in silent elegies.
Categories:
sequestering, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
The ocean, eternal, spreads wide
Reflecting slate, somber storm clouds
While beachgoers, eight stories down,
Gather towels and scurry fast
From a squall shedding white lightning,
Dull, delayed drumbeat of thunder
Touching my ears as your fingers
Cover my hand on the railing;
Surf line we watch fade, grow obscured
In a curtain of pallid rain
Encroaching the pale, vacant sand
As single-file palms bob green heads
When an updraft, cool and sudden,
Tousles your soft and silken hair
And balloons your light cotton shift—
Bare beauty nearly shared—
We retreat, sliding glass door to,
Sequestering the world away
Save your bold, yearning expression,
Gentle kisses to hungry lips,
Cotton slipping, slacking, falling,
Then persistent, gusting patter
Of rain like long-pent love.
Categories:
sequestering, beach, love, rain, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Shadows of succulents surpass my seeing self
I lie on my back, admiring the seductive symmetry
How does nature manage to secrete similar signs
Is there a mystical, magical, movement in her roots?
I am at a loss to know; feeling like a voyeur,
peeking up into the sun-list sky, secretly wondering.
How does mother nature keep everything in sync?
She has a spiritual dance that sings soul into her succulents.
I am quietly contemplating this, sequestering myself in her shadows.
Spying a scene, I could not imagine from any other perspective.
I am silent, enjoying the shadows, and the symmetry.
Categories:
sequestering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Alliteration
Early dawning of The Season,
Close knit, yet far sighted.
That jazz trio and song in the shadows,
Lobbying One Hope, and One Light.
A watchful gaze, piercing darkness,
The eye of the night, mesmerizing in fullness.
The sweep of The Spirit,
Soaking, saturating…sequestering silence.
Staring in stark realization,
A clouded conscience, childish chagrin.
The train of temperament, eluding its own path,
And unto its own.
Woeful remorse, within hapless emptiness
I shudder.
For if Thou hasten Thy Hand,
Will I be ready for Heaven.
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Categories:
sequestering, faith, life,
Form:
The Bulldog Turns 30
Welcome to the days you shall not for long in life recall.
Welcome to the days you will with but one song recall.
These days are sharply bright, more so in deeply falling nights
Shall pass in silence, sequestering for later strong recall
Those gems that were the deepest cut, were felt the best,
Guarded in Thy soul from the wrong of wrong recall
The Past births the Present, mixing bitter with the pleasant,
And on it goes, perforce, with no power to recall
The perfection Thou hast gained, withal,
I, The Wolf, dost wish you hold in thrall.
Categories:
sequestering, daughter, endurance, father daughter,
Form:
Ghazal
Requested to linger
one could never vacate
Your love, a pillar of puissance
Visions of you,
entangled in impassioned embraces
consume sentinel contemplating you slumber
Looks given, resulting kiss
linger sweetly through waking hours
Night explodes
her gentle white sacrifice
Sequestering mortals, a lover's sanctuary
Not concerned
Waking
nuzzles resume
greeting dawn's nascent rays
Your sentry pines to ensconce your soul with
enticement
Consummating awareness, corporeal
Day rendered -
breathless
Categories:
sequestering, allusion, lust,
Form:
Free verse
This earth circumnavigates in a solar trajectory.
It continues rotation during chaotic lawlessness.
When starless nights rule the terrestrial scenery,
my lantern illuminates my path through the darkness.
In animation during a timeless sequestering,
my character is unhampered by social stimuli.
A vital unobstructed flame keeps burning.
No impetuous wants or desires have I.
Far beyond the hills within their social dwelling,
the gregarious spend lives in a precarious existence.
Transactions materialize in buying and selling.
From the plight of humankind, I am keeping my distance.
Categories:
sequestering, allegory, fantasy, social,
Form:
Rhyme
It seems to happen frequently
At least in this millennium
All the freedoms we enjoy
We now must keep to minimum
They say we must can cel our plans
And figure out why tissue
Has disappeared from grocer's shelves
When toilets aren't the issue
Was it a snake that put me in
This frantic need to sanitize
Or could a bat have sneaked one by
And caused this world to agonize?
I'd hardly think a wayward germ
Is gonna take my lungs out
But lis'ning to the MSM
My saner side will then doubt
Following the movie stars
In self-imposed restrictions
I'll give in to sequestering
And snub the contradictions
So now I wait to see what the
Stock market guys will guess at
And what my local diplomates
Will emphasize and stress that
Contamination headlines streak
Across the news like comets
I could not close this timely rhyme
Ignoring words like vomit.
Categories:
sequestering, angst, celebrity, community, culture,
Form:
Rhyme
THE PROVIDENCE OF MANKIND
BEYOND THE NIGHTS THE DREAMS
OF PEOPLE WHO SEEK IN ADVENTURE
TO REDEFINE MINING OF ASTEROIDS
THEY SPOKE OF THE ONE:1?2 TON RATIO
WHERE ROCK LADEN WITH MAGNESITE TO
SOAK-UP CARBON MONOXIDE FROM
THE ATMOSHERE
SEQUESTERING STRATEGIES
THEY SOUGHT TO FIND TRUTH IN
POSITIONS WERE TRUTH
WAS FROM DATA THE UNTRUSTED
SCEINCE OF BEING FIRST
FROM SPACE THE ASTRONAUT SPOKE
AND SAID SUCH THEN MIGHT
VIOLATE THE TREATY CAUSING THOSE WHO
SIGNED THE TREATY TO
MAKE IT HARDER FOR US TO DO WHAT WE
NEED TO DO TO HAVETHESE THINGS DONE,
MEASURE PUT FOURTH AGAINST
SOMETHING THAT MIGHT
SAVE ALOT OF PEOPLE AND A WHOLE LOT
OF ANIMALS, EXSPECALLY THE
ONE'S WE EAT, THEY CALLED IT
CHEMICAL CAJOLING, USING MINERALS
TO SOAK-UP AIRBORN GAS
Categories:
sequestering, animal, business, clothes, earth,
Form:
Ballad
I see the sky
as one more reaching
past the isolation of myself
past imprisonment, the status quo,
and then I know I am complicit
in my own sequestering--
that the horizon
borders only dreams postponed
by fear,
by my own reticence.
Push it back! Break free!
For I can choose among those images
that crowd my consciousness.
I can stretch this isolated
dungeon I have built--
have no need of its security,
for skies like this extend themselves
with every step I take;
these walls of penal stone
will crumble, fall away
with every touch, and dreams anew
may rise to celebrate.
Look up!
That azure ceiling's just a light
turned in to hide the stars
a little while, to chide me
with a temporal beauty while
the sun keeps watch, and promising
the moon--if I succomb.
I shall see, for there is opportunity
upon the stair and freedom also,
respite from the climb, but temporal.
My sight is just beyond...
the year quite short on endings:
Stay with me and watch the midnight
disappear.
~
Categories:
sequestering, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Some flowers bloom well into twilight,
moonlight mesmerizes them,
leads them into dreams of distant dawns.
The velvet drapes of summer
do not offend them,
rather they entice
as they bathe
within deeply tidal lullabies.
Gently the blossoms succumb,
gentle is the soft enfolding.
A warmed and darkening air descends
to couple with the intimate scents
of floral favors, perfumes that linger
upon wafts of intimacy.
all hidden by sequestering shadows,
an efflorescence is shared
within a sanctuary of confidential pleasures,
raptures far from
the harsh dazzle of daylights
prying gaze.
Categories:
sequestering, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
For months, I've come to sense it well-
that loneliness, as none before.
In feelings of unrest, I dwell
on what is now- and what's in store.
At first, confined to home- so sad,
deprived of friends and family.
For cellphones, live stream, I was glad,
to speak to, watch them- happily.
For our essentials, I will shop-
six feet apart and with a mask.
Like other patrons, do not stop-
avoid encounters mid the task.
Alone together, when about-
spaced out wherever I now go;
in waiting rooms or eating out-
the pangs of isolation grow.
Just people walking, eyes ahead-
sequestering on streets, in stores.
Thoughts deep within and left unsaid-
pray that old normal soon restores.
We beings are a social kind
and keeping us apart is wrong-
not meant to isolate- I find
within close bonds- we all belong.
At times, I feel we're in a test
to see how we obey commands;
and now, our world in such unrest-
what happens next- increased demands?
July 27, 2020
~5th Place~
Premiere Contest: Isolation Philosophy
Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Judged: 07/31/2020
Categories:
sequestering, how i feel, loneliness,
Form:
Quatrain
.
Not the
Perennial
For
The flower showed
Past
Twice
Mine winterz
Mine prayer answered
That the flower
Be not the biennial
for
Appear yesss
Did it
For mine
Rest
Bloomed
Beaming
Thoroughly arresting
Sequestering
Mine
the eccentric
bard
Categories:
sequestering, adventure, analogy, beautiful, blessing,
Form:
Carpe Diem
Adjectives hid in the deepest shadows
behind smelly sticky stinky garbage dumpsters
rats squatted on them
Adverbs tore verbs into tiny manageable bites
and nested on them, after they were gooey, snarly and moldy.
Nouns appeared stuck up prissy.
Refused to join adjectives
Thought they were better than that.
Adverbs and adjectives conspired against the nouns.
Sequestering themselves in the recesses of the alley walls.
Nothing working today, each against any type of unity.
Muse made fun of my Pollyanna ways, so gave up the poetry idea
and took a little nap.
Categories:
sequestering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse